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No. 311.706. Patented Feb. 3,1885.

Units DAVID YOUNG, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

TRAVELING TH RASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,705, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed June 17, 1884.

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Be it known that I, DAVID YOUNG, a citizen oftheUnited States, residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traveling Thrashers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in traveling thrashirig-machines; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my'maehine. Fig. 3 is a front end view of my machine.

The frame of my machine, upon which the operating devices are supported, consists of the main crossbeams O, U, and 0 extending the whole width of the machine, and the longitndinal beams B, B, B B B, and B. All of the longitudinal beams are bolted or otherwise secured at their rear ends to the crossbeams G or O, and at their front ends to the beams 0, except that the beams B and B ex tend forwardly from beam 0 and are supported at their extreme front ends by a pair of truckwheels carrying the pole or tongue of the machine to which the horses are attached for hauling the entire machine.

Between the beams B and B, and having the beam 0 at its front end and the beam 0 at its rear, is the left-hand driving and main carrying wheel A of the machine, its axle being in the journal-bearings secured to the beam B and B; and between the beams 13" and B and having the beam 0 at its front end and the beam G at its rear, is the right-hand driving and main carrying wheel A of the machine, its axle being in the journalbearings secured to the beams B and The beams B" and B are supported, as hereinbefore shown, by the front carrying-wheels of the machine, and also directly sustain the weight of the thrasher and separator, being girded across by the beams 0 and G.

a a are the axles of Wheels A A, and as the driving mechanism proceeding from one of these wheels is a duplicate of the other, I will describe this device in the singular number,

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as follows, viz: Upon the axle a is a gear wheel, I), engaging with a pinion, c, on a shaft having a gear-wheel, c, engaging with a gearwhcel, f, on its shaft, engaging with pinion g on shaft is, having gear-wheel i, engaging with another gear-wheehj, on cylinder-shaft 75. In this manner is motion imparted to the cylinder by a direct connection of shafting and gearing from the wheels A A to the cylinder. The right-hand. shaft h has on its right-hand end a pulley, Z, from which a belt may connect it with a pulley, in, which actuates a main receiving-conveyor, D, which will now be described. It and other conveyors, which will be duly described, are located within an angular trough attached to the side of the machine, being composed of 1), outside guard; D", inside guard; D", the front end; D, the inner en da continuation of D at right angles thereto and parallel to D; D, the back end. This angular trough contains, besides the main receiving-conveyor D, a cross-conveyer, E, located at the head of the trough just described, and which receives the grain for conveyer D. There is also a conveyer, F, (indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 3,) above and parallel with the conveyer E, over such portion of it as is not directly at right angles with conveyer D. From the eonveyer E the grain is deposited in a feeding-box, G, in front of the cylinder, upon a self-feeder, which has over it an auxiliary conveyer or feeder, H, which aids the flow of the grain to the cylinder. The tailings grain is conveyed back from the sieves of the shoe by trough K, having a discharge-spout, K, emptying its contents between the selffeeders at the exit ends of the conveyors F and E. M is the trunk containing the separating features.

N is the cap over the cylinder.

NVhen the th rasher is moving in the harvestfield, grain is supplied from an accompanying detached heading-machine operated by a detached motive power, the grain from it being deposited, as shown, upon the receiving-conveyer D.

\Vhen it is desired to operate my machine as a stationary thrasher, a driving-belt connecting a pulley, T, upon cylinder-shaft K with a horse-power or steam-cngine, furnishes the power, the cylinder-shaft 7c of course then being disconnected with the gearing which ICO connects it with the wheels A by means of a sliding clutch, x.

W is a truss-brace upon beam 13 having a turn-buckle to stiffen it. Similar truss-braces may be employed upon any beam in the machine, when desired to stiffen it and increase its supporting powers.

I do not desire to limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement of the parts hereinbefore set forth, as it is obvious that many modifications 'may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention; and as both belting and gearing for such machines are common, I have only describedsuch as are new, the only requirement being that the parts be driven in the directions indicated and at proper relative speeds.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A frame comprising the transverse beams G, O, and O longitudinal beams B, B, B", B

B, and B in combination with suitable supporting and driving wheels, A A, upon which the frameis mounted, and connecting-gearing comprising the axles a, main gear-wheels b,

pinion c, shafts d, gear-wheels e, gear-wheels- DAVID YOUNG.

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